The upcoming May 13, 2019 elections are as crucial to the country and the future as the April 7, 1978 Interim Batasan Pambansa election then, said Sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan, Liberal Party president, Sunday.

Erin Tañada, whose grandfather and namesake Lorenzo Tañada was the campaign manager of the opposition coalition Laban at the time, recalled that the noise barrage was only meant to last one hour but lasted the whole night, he said.

Similarly, the Otso Diretso campaign manager said, the campaign for the eight senatorial candidates is the campaign of the underdog.